Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great Magazine
Comment: I've had a subscription to this magazine for three years and gave never had a problem with the magazine. I love this magazine, it gives good reviews of games with objective point of views. The editorials and articles are humorous and factual.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: I Love It
Comment: Many gaming magazines suffer from spam.Each page is littered with junky ads.Although EGM doesn't have the constant spam,or atleast as bad as some magazines.EGM is possibly the most informative gaming magazine available.Very affordable for a 12 month plan.Some issues have cool stickers or posters and little nice additions.The magazine isn't nerdafied where a non-gamer could pick it up and comprehend it for the most part.Whats nice about EGM is the rating done to each game.Some games that are hyped automatically get good ratings EGM doesn't let the hype get to them they treat it like any other game.
The fan art is colorful the screenshots for each game gives you a good idea what to expect from each game.They have little Q&A areas and issues answered about some games and junk.Upcomming titles are previewed and glorified,so you can almost see the future of gaming.The get the hands on for some upcomming title and even give you the heads up.The reviewers seem in their right groove and not lacking a one sided touch.
The price is nice each issue is packed with information,every thing down to the last page is gamer worthy.Buy atleast one issue to help you determin if you like it or not before making a such a commitment.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A drug
Comment: Simply put, EGM is a drug. It has a way of making you want more just by reading the next month section, giving you a hype of what's next. But that is just one way that EGM makes to give you the best reading on the market that you will want to read again and again.
So here we go with a tour with everything, page by page, or sections. starting a the cover
It just a cover. after the usual ads
So what exactly makes this magazine so good? First of all, everythiong is layed out prefect. The reviewsare organized and on a sca;e of 1 to 10, have some thing at the bottom that tells you the b est and worst thiuhng about it, rating, game maker, players, plus of course the game of the month, shame of the moth, each reviewers profile with likes and dislikes, and of course, non professional pictures(they uised to be so hilariously stupid i.e. Shoe with the word dork over his head). ANd if you though that was enouogh, it has a review archive with scores and summary plus the game of the month shown. Even a review wrap up and each month a special lookbackliek something like the average score for the GTA series versus Driver 3 (with average for all the games in the series. At of couse they give humor to the screensohts with funny descriptions and awards like medal.
For the previews, they had the usual section, but deleteed it and added more in-depth previews and feature showing on games. Instead, it all is in the Press start section. The press start sectio
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not the Godsend it used to be/I thought it was, but still informative.
Comment: When I was in 8th Grade, my Honors English teacher kept a stack of magazines in the back of the classroom. Among the "People" and "Star" issues, I found 2 issues of EGM from years gone by. Since I was (and still am) an avid video-gamer, I was instantly hooked, since I knew that this magazine could keep me up to date with everything that was happening in the digital world. The fact that the writing was very witty and EXTREMELY addictive only made this fact better. This was God in magazine form.
Flash forward several years later, and my thoughts about EGM have definitely changed. It's still very informative, but the flaws are much more noticable: I'm not sure whether this is a result of the industry becoming somewhat stale and stagnated, or videogames becoming far more mainstream than they used to be, but several aspects of the magazine seem very MTV-ified, from the "awesome" new format that they began using in June 2003, to the interviews with "celebrity gamers", to the ads for Jamster Ringtones that appear occasionally...what the hell is this?! I want my geeks-only magazine, not some asinine prep fuel!
The reviews aren't quite as fun to read as they used to be, either, although they handle this category FAR better than any of Gay Informer's miserable attempts. Most of the best reviewers (such as Chris Johnston) are long gone, and the highest reviews are given to the most stereotypical games around (oooh! Halo 2 and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas got perfect 10's? What a surprise!). I do like the high reviews they give niche games, but that's practically a gimme.
I will say one thing, though: Many of my real-life friends have commented on my writing abilities, and I seriously doubt I would have developed them were it not for constantly flipping through pages of EGM to see what score they gave [insert game here], so I guess I owe them that much.
If I wrote this review 3 years ago, this would've been an obvious 5-star. But the times, they have a change...ed.
Customer Rating:
Summary: EGM Review
Comment: The previous "essay" reviewing Electronic Gaming Monthly was comical and enjoyable to read. The hilarity of an educated person reviewing such a broad age range magazine was kind of odd though. The previous reviewer hit points on the magazines "retardedness" which is untrue and kind of offensive to the funny writer "Seanbaby." The magazine is NOT a Time or Newsweek so don't expect it to be. As a loyal subscriber for almost 8 years, their appreciated knowledge is respected in the gaming community. The magazine gets the best interviews while trying to have a sense of humor and appeal to their HUGE fan base (Male and Female 8-30). Ouch: "Lastly, there's the worst inhuman piece of garbage in the pretentious jerk-off called "Seanbaby," a developmentally retarded adult who squanders his days by reviewing games the adult-video-gaming-community of geeks considers "dorky." This disgrace struggles at humor while reviewing that his planned quips of "witty" put-downs actually impersonate awkward unintelligibility!!!!" Most people love "Seanbaby" and his hilarious reviews. Subscribe to EGM if you love videogames and love to be well informed on the video game industry. The monthly magazine is a fun read.
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